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Stanley John Weyman

1855–1928

Best known for turning swashbuckling history into fast, lively fiction, this English novelist earned the nickname “the prince of romance.” His stories of intrigue, danger, and political upheaval helped define the historical adventure novel for a wide popular audience.

36 Audiobooks

The Story of Francis Cludde

by Stanley John Weyman

Under the red robe

by Stanley John Weyman

A Gentleman of France: Being the Memoirs of Gaston de Bonne Sieur de Marsac

by Stanley John Weyman

Sophia: A Romance

by Stanley John Weyman

The Long Night

by Stanley John Weyman

Count Hannibal: A Romance of the Court of France

by Stanley John Weyman

Shrewsbury: A Romance

by Stanley John Weyman

La cocarde rouge

by Stanley John Weyman

Ovington's Bank

by Stanley John Weyman

The man in black

by Stanley John Weyman

Chippinge Borough

by Stanley John Weyman

The Wild Geese

by Stanley John Weyman

The House of the Wolf: A Romance

by Stanley John Weyman

The Great House

by Stanley John Weyman

The Castle Inn

by Stanley John Weyman

My Lady Rotha: A Romance

by Stanley John Weyman

The Abbess Of Vlaye

by Stanley John Weyman

The red cockade

by Stanley John Weyman

Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France

by Stanley John Weyman

A Little Wizard

by Stanley John Weyman

The Snowball

by Stanley John Weyman

In Kings' Byways

by Stanley John Weyman

From the Memoirs of a Minister of France

by Stanley John Weyman

The King's Stratagem, and Other Stories

by Stanley John Weyman

The New Rector

by Stanley John Weyman

Starvecrow Farm

by Stanley John Weyman

Laid up in Lavender

by Stanley John Weyman

When Love Calls

by Stanley John Weyman

Mustapukuinen mies : Historiallinen romaani

by Stanley John Weyman

Todellinen aatelismies: Historiallinen romaani

by Stanley John Weyman

"Susi": Historiallinen romaani Perttuliyön ajalta

by Stanley John Weyman

Kardinaalin asialla

by Stanley John Weyman

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Stanley J. Weyman

by Stanley John Weyman

For the Cause

by Stanley John Weyman

Kreivi Hannibal: Historiallinen romaani Ranskan hovista

by Stanley John Weyman

Punanen kokardi: Romaani Ranskan vallankumouksen ensi ajoilta

by Stanley John Weyman

About the author

Born in 1855 in Ludlow, Shropshire, Stanley J. Weyman became one of the most popular writers of historical romance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford, and he was called to the bar before fiction gradually became his real career.

His breakthrough came with A Gentleman of France in 1893, followed by a string of successful novels including Under the Red Robe. Drawing on French and English history, he wrote brisk, dramatic tales filled with court intrigue, duels, escapes, and shifting loyalties, and his work won a large international readership.

Weyman died in 1928. Though tastes changed, his best-known books have remained in print and he is still remembered as an important popularizer of the historical adventure novel.